From the handsome collection of locomotives at the National Railway Museum in York to the majestic Forth River bridges in Scotland, from the graceful windmills of Norfolk and Suffolk to the soaring ...(Read More)

The daughter of a Russian anarchist and a runaway mother living in Geneva, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) read the Quran as a child and became fluent in Arabic. She also began to dress as a boy to ...(Read More)

At a time when French writers generally resided in Paris, Gustave Flaubert (1821–80) honed his craft in rural Normandy, drawing upon it for the settings of such novels as Madame Bovary. Richly ...(Read More)

A great tide of literary invention swept through Ireland between the 1890s and the 1920s, led by such writers as W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, and Sean O'Casey. From Galway and the ...(Read More)

Following four books on Italian gardens (and a number of others on gardens around the world), Helena Attlee here takes us on a unique culinary adventure through Italian history, told through its ...(Read More)

On 10 strolls through some of the most interesting areas of London, Rüdiger Görner re-discovers the literary landscape of the capital. He meets Shakespeare, Heine, and Hogarth south of the river; ...(Read More)

First published in 1956, this is the incredible account of Slavomir Rawicz, a young Polish cavalry officer, arrested by the Soviet secret police in 1939 after the Red Army and the Nazis invaded ...(Read More)

We know Mark Twain today as the author of classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but in his own time Twain—born Samuel Langhorne Clemens—was a controversial satirist and public figure who ...(Read More)

From the gardens of Kent to the white cliffs of Dover, and from the battlefields of the Somme to horseracing country in Chantilly, the railway journey leading from London to Paris takes you through ...(Read More)

The sense of place was of the utmost importance to Charles Dickens, and nowhere is more associated with him than London; Dickens spent several hours a day exploring its streets and inhabitants, and ...(Read More)

Covering everything from the best way to move wagons over hostile terrain—and what to pack in them—to describing more than 30 different trails to be taken and the dangers one may face on the way, ...(Read More)